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hi
i would like to add a little functionality to my media collection (specifically videos). i have a lot of full tv series episodes, and its sometimes difficult to remember which episodes i have watched and which i havnt.
i would like a script, that can be mapped to a button press, so that i can rename files in my media collection and add _watched or s omething to them.
is this even possible to do? it would mean a script being able to detect the xbmc's currently selected context.
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EnderW
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i believe this is not possible through python. you can only detect position on lists created as python objects. there could be some direct commands to xbmc that i haven't heard of, but i really don't think so.
ideally it should be coded into xbmc itself, but myself i don't really see that happening (i don't decide anything though of course) as it is a rather useless feature that would clutter the interface in my opinion. but who knows what will be added...
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Zodler
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This is also exactly what I'm looking for. It's quite simple. It's an automatic rename.
File->Context->watched
This renames the file and adds a _watched text to the end of the file name. It's already possible by using Rename, but it would have been nice to automate it.
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Zodler
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That's not enough for me, I need the files physically renamed and changed on my drive. This way, I will always know what I have seen with any program/file explorer/zoomplayer/etc....
This is just a first step actually. The next step would be to create a dummy like file and delete the original file. This is excellent to know what TV show you have seen without keeping the original sized files.
You have
tvshow_episode01.avi
tvshow_episode02.avi
tvshow_episode03.avi
after watching episode 01 and 02 it becomes like this on your drive
tvshow_episode01.avi.seen
tvshow_episode02.avi.seen
tvshow_episode03.avi
the .seen files are not the original files, they are 0 sized dummy files with the originals been deleted.
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prae5
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2010-11-25, 20:41
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-25, 21:01 by prae5.)
Not something that will ever make it into core xbmc.
Nothing stopping you writing a addon for it though.
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Zodler
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Since I am a complete noob, this is a plugin or a script?
